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For more than 200 years, the Luddites have been the bogeymen of progress, a symbol of the rage against the machine.

In autonomous warfare, AI may have found its ultimate application: Severing everyone from responsibility.

With great power should come great accountability. Why not take some cues from the financial service industry?

Visiting Big Data LDN, again.But something has changed.

AI success stories regularly appear in the media. Their retractions later receive comparably little attention, while their impact persists.

What do “frontier AI labs” actually train their models on? Do we know? Do they even know? There are arguments to be made we should all know, and in detail.

A slow-down of AI development because of safety concerns? In reality the industry’s balance sheets are scarier than its AI models.

OpenAI claims to have solved a decades old mathematical problem just as researchers are about to publish about their solution. Coincidence?

From water usage to electricity generation, AI data centres impact the climate. But exact estimates are difficult due to the lack of transparency.

By what methods and at which point can AI-powered chatbots trigger delusions in a user?

AI Agents who escape on their own decision, a nice trick. But there is no such thing as real magic.

Bias in LLM based systems can shape narratives and can influence users’ decision-making in subtle ways that AI literacy alone might not avoid.

From today, AI generated content that could be mistaken as real needs to be labelled in the EU.

The UK Labour government has made a big bet on AI. Adoption first, regulation, maybe, later. But was there ever a plan?

The AI Resist List had its London launch, presenting the various project that are part of its network. Some notes.

Today thousands of scientists across the US will protest the attacks on scientific institutions by the Trump administration. But some institutions in the US as well as in Europe have let scientists down. To win this fight, networks will have to be formed beyond academia.

So I strolled around the AI & Big Data Expo in London on Wednesday: Is the AI hype over and a new realism setting in? From lack of support, the ubiquity and triviality of agentic AI to having a phone chat with Richard Attenborough.Some thoughts and observations.